Hail size 1.25"
1 SSW Buckeye Huntington County
“Estimated half dollar sized hail near Warren... IN. Time estimated from radar. (IWX)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Wells
Hail in Liberty Center · Mar 26, 2026
NEXRAD logged 3 hail signatures up to 1.75"; the estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.75" ≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 127
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Mar 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Liberty Center has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.9 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.9 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 42 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Liberty Center saw the hail — from two instruments
Mar 26, 2026 · Liberty Center, IN
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Max size
1.75"
Detections
3
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Max size
1"
The storm in context
Where Mar 26, 2026 sits in Liberty Center's hail record.
This was Liberty Center's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Liberty Center at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Liberty Center: the same system put hail over 316 other tracked cities, 80 of them in Indiana. Nearest: Warren (5 miles west, up to 2.75"); Huntington (13 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Andrews (17 miles northwest, up to 3").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Liberty Center storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
1 report filed with the NWS
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Hail reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Buckeye — beyond Liberty Center itself.
High damage potential
What 1.75" hail means for Liberty Center roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
127 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$1.5M
Potential roof exposure — 127 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 127 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
March 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $27 on top of the $150 plan.
Liberty Center hail history
Other storms in Liberty Center.
4 recorded storm days in Liberty Center, IN
Estimated-size surface Storm date Liberty Center / IN
Aug 30, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Liberty Center / IN
Jul 20, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Liberty Center / IN
Jun 10, 2026
1.75" Estimated 1.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.